Like my previous post, for this visit I came prepared with questions and her answers are below. I think asking questions is a good way to gain insight to her style or beliefs about teaching.
Q: What are the pros and cons of being a teacher?
A: She said that a pro is having a calling for teaching, which she feels
she has. Also, that teaching can be very rewarding. Some cons are the amount of
work that it takes to be a good teacher because time is so limited and
that planning lessons cuts into
free time.
Q: How do you engage your students?
A: Variety of material,
activities, and learning tools. She tries to make discussions relevant to their
lives.
Q: Are there any learning tools that you use?
A: She said that she uses
projects, Power Points, in-class assignments and provides opportunities for the
students to teach the class themselves in order to help them learn in the
information several ways
Some techniques and strategies that I learned during this visit or didn't really learn:
My clinical teacher has yet to let me teach a group
of students or the whole class. Therefore, my role within the classroom, thus
far, has been to observe. Honestly I didn’t learn anything during this visit by
watching her teach because for the first hour, the students were called to an
assembly. For the second hour, the students were taking a PSAT test.
Some insights and observations:
I would really like to teach a group of students
but somehow I don’t feel prepared. Does anyone else feel this way? This visit wasn’t extremely useful as the students were gone or taking a
test. I have noticed that Ms. X is consistently assertive with her
students. I think that being assertive is good because her students respect her
and it keeps them on task. However, I feel that she needs to re-evaluate the
line between being assertive and rude.
Until next time,
Amanda
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